OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Knowledge, skills or social mobility? Citizens' perceptions of the purpose of education	85
Buying and selling the poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare‐to‐work marketSiobhanO'Sullivan, MichaelMcGann, MarkConsidineSydney University Press, Sydney (2021). ISBN: 9781743327869	79
A research agenda for governance. By B. GuyPeters, JonPierre, EvaSørensen, & JacobTorfing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9781788117982; £80.00 (Hbk)	67
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Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi	53
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor: A 200‐year History. StewartLansley. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447363217; £19.99 (Pbk)	37
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect	23
Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design	22
Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions	20
Disability and care: State, society and invisible lives. UpaliChakravartiNew Delhi: Sage publications India, 2018. ISBN: 9789352807741, £32.99 (Hbk)	19
The quest for a divided welfare state: Sweden in the era of privatization. JohnLapidusBasingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. ISBN 9783030247836; £69.99 (Hbk)	18
The operation of the social support sector serving siblings of people with disabilities: A cross‐country analysis	17
Living wages in Portugal: In search of dignity in a polarised labour market	15
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	13
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	12
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability	12
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	12
Robots and immigrants: Who is stealing jobs? By K.Maronitis, D.Pencheva, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. pp. 156. £26.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐1271‐6	12
Activation through marketisation as a process of ignorancing	12
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Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey	10
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Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8	10
Subnational policy innovation: The birth of social pensions in Mexico	10

Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	9
Palgrave handbook of co‐production of public services and outcomes. Elke Loeffler, Tony BovairdBasingstoke: Palgrave, 2021. ISBN: 9783030537050; £127.50 (Ebk).	9
Clients, Consumers or Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in EnglandBobHudsonBristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447355700; £24.99 (pbk)	9
The politics of scale in policy: Scalecraft and education governance, by NataliePapanastasiouBristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447343851; £60 (Hbk)	9
The settlement house movement revisited: A transnational history: John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah VicaryBristol, Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 978‐1447354239; £60.00 (Pbk)	9
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions	9
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	9
Beveridge on idleness	8
Social policy in a political vacuum: Women's experiences of hunger during the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis in Northern Ireland	8
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa	8
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina	8
Visualising the 2020s UK cost‐of‐living crisis	8
Theorizing notions of the participation of people in poverty in social policymaking: Policing, politics and subjectification	8
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?	7
Democratic contestation, organised labour, and pension reform in Ghana and Malawi	7
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	7
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in theWelshhomelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’	7
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	7
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	6
Public understandings of welfare and the economy: Who knows what and does it relate to political attitudes?	6
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty	6
Empowering the poor through financial and social inclusion in Africa an Islamic perspective. By Abdelrahman Elzahi SaaidAli (Ed.), Switzerland: Springer Nature. 2022. £130.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978303100925	6
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective	6
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: the case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy	6
Financing and Provision of Long‐Term Care in Europe: Reflections on Intergenerational Solidarity in Care for Older People	6
Expanding Perceived Capacity of Public Sector Workers: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of a Counter‐Stereotypical Narrative on Public Perceptions of Correctional Officers	5
Which employers have refugee employees—And which do not? Employer typologies developed through hierarchical cluster analyses	5
Exploring the practical relevance of food aid rationales in Belgium: Lessons from applying in‐kind transfer valuation methods	5
“You've Got a Lot to Prove”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of How Older Adults and Their Families Navigate Medicaid Enrollment	5
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis	5
State childcare provision in China: Subnational variations and localized policy contexts across 31 mainland provinces	5
Does digital government hollow out the essence of street‐level bureaucracy? A systematic literature review of how digital tools' foster curtailment, enablement and continuation of street‐level decisio	5
Exit from open‐ended social benefits into employment: Access to work, active labour market policies and work intensity	5
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery	4
Governing Access to Nationality Through Paperwork: The Discretionary Uses of Documentation for Naturalisation in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom	4
Determinants of the Unconditional Basic Income Acceptance Among German Citizens: An Empirical Analysis Based on Innovation Resistance Theory	4
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	4
Classifying participatory methods in social care regulation	4
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?	4
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	4
The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state. By ErdemYörük, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 221. 29.25 USD (paper	4
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK	4
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	4
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	4
Critical juncture and historical legacies: Insights and methods. By Collier, D., & Munck, G. L. (Eds.), London: The Rowman & Little‐field Publishing Group, Inc.2022. pp. 1–473. $92.70 (Hardcov	4
Understanding Path‐Departing Changes in Childcare Policy: The Influence of Self‐Undermining Policy Feedback	4
European long‐term care marketisation: A political economy framework	4
Public Rights Orientations and Views on Long‐Term Care Options for Children in the Child Protection System: An Analysis of Representative Samples of Adults in California, USA and Norway	4
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?	3
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	3

Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity	3
Trafficking chains: Modern slavery in society. By SylviaWalby, Karen A.Shire, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. 3 £27.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐3235‐6	3
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	3
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The unequal pandemic: COVID‐19 and health inequalities. By ClareBambra, JuliaLynch, Katherine E.Smith, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2021. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1447361237	3
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	3
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations	3
Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights	3
Choice and opportunity on the welfare care market: An experimental evaluation of decision‐making in a context of individual funding policy	3
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	3
Translational State Power: Managing Interpreters to Make Asylum Seekers Talk in the French Asylum Bureaucracy	3
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The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	3
Frontline Worker Discretion in the For‐Profit Banking Industry: Lessons From Early Pandemic Relief Programming	3
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	3
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe	3
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	3
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	3
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	3
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres: The contested administration of the unemployed, JohnGrundyToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781487504472; £41.99 (Hbk)	2
Analysis of the modern functional field of effective implementation of public control in the system of public administration in Ukraine	2
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	2
Corporations and the cost of living crisis: Corporate involvement in UK food charity	2
Reversed socioeconomic pattern in the costs of caring regarding well‐being and paid work among women in Sweden	2
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	2
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	2
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Social policy in the Islamic world. Ali AkbarTajmazinaniBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN: 9783030577537; £71.50 (ebk)	2
Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?	2
A multi‐country systematic review of research on sanctions and equity in social welfare programs	2
Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England	2
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The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	2
Monetary redress for abuse in state care. By StephenWinter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. ISBN: 9781009082662. Open Access (online) ISBN: 9781316514160; 223 pages; £85 (Hbk)	2
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions	2
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	2
The Four Lenses of Population Aging: Planning for the Future in Canada's Provinces. By PatrikMarier, University of Toronto Press, 2021, 368 Pages. £44.95 (Pbk)	2
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	2
StefanDercon, Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. Hurts & Company, 2022. ISBN: 9781787385627; £25 (Hbk)	2
Welfare developmentalism with interactive central–local relations: Understanding the recent expansion in pension coverage in China	2
Welfare to work in contemporary European welfare states: Legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives on justice and domination. AnjaEleveld, ThomasKampenJosienArtsBristol: Policy Press, 2019. <	2
Big data and the welfare state. How the information revolution threatens social solidarity. TorbenIversen and PhilippRehm. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN:	2
De Gruyter handbook of contemporary welfare states. BentGreve (Ed.), Berlin: De Gruyter. 2022. £105.30 (hbk). ISBN: 9783110721249	2
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	2
Jesse Hajer & John Loxley (2021). Social service, private gain: The political economy of social impact bonds, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0328‐4 (cloth),	2
The two‐child limit and fertility decision making: When policy narratives and lived experiences collide	2
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	2
Framing Beveridge	2
The European Pillar of Social Rights: How strategic agency shaped the European Union's flagship social initiative	2
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale	2
Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the field. John Butcher and David GilchristCanberra: ANU Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781760463960; £41.09 (Pbk)	2